Australia v Bangladesh: first men’s Test, day one – live

Key events4m agoPreamblePreambleJames WallaceTest cricket in Australia in August? Yes please.And so it begins. Over the next 12 months the Australian men’s Test team will play 20 Test matches (21 if they make the World Test Championship final) in a year that will likely define an era.Much has been made about the wizened age of the current Aussie outfit -with only Cameron Green under the age of 30 in the likely starting XI against Bangladesh in Darwin today. This is not a team that is preparing for the future, but it is one that could win a hell of a lot of Test cricket in the next 12 months and yah-boo to whatever follows. Pat Cummins intimated he is all about the here and now in his pre-match comments: double quotation markWe don’t look too far ahead. We as a group are quite good at just being quite present, not thinking too far ahead and moving on from one game to the next. For us at the moment, it’s all Bangladesh this series.” The ‘Fab Four’ are reunited too – the ever present and ever impressive (just ask England’s batting card…) Mitchell Starc is rejoined by Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon, the first time the quartet will line up together in over a year. No questions about the golden quality of the bowling then but a few question marks over the Aussie batting order with plenty of scrutiny on the aforementioned Green and Jake Weatherald at the top of the order.Bangladesh haven’t been Down Under for a Test series since 2003 and Darwin hasn’t hosted a Test match since 2004. Play begins at 10am local time and 10:30am AEST, the teams and the toss are imminent. As ever, please do get in touch as we go along. Shall we?